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WordPress Plugin: wpvivid-backuprestore: CVE-2020-36835: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 23, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure of a WordPress site's database due to missing capability checks on the wp_ajax_wpvivid_add_remote AJAX action that allows low-level authenticated attackers to send back-ups to a remote location of their choice for review. This affects versions up to, and including 0.9.35.

Solution

wpvivid-backuprestore-plugin-cve-2020-36835
Title
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